Portrait

1993

Mary Bero, Artist Andrew Gordon Balkin, Printer AGB Graphics Workshop, Publisher

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About the Artwork

Title Portrait

Artwork Date 1993

Makers Mary Bero (Artist) American, born 1949 Andrew Gordon Balkin (Printer) American, active 1970-2000 AGB Graphics Workshop (Publisher) American, founded 1978

Medium Intaglio printed in black ink on wove paper

Dimensions Plate: 23 7/8 × 17 7/8 inches (60.6 × 45.4 cm) Sheet: 29 7/8 × 22 9/16 inches (75.9 × 57.3 cm)

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of the artist

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1997.93

Markings

Signed Signed and dated, in pencil, lower right: Mary Bero, 1993

Inscriptions Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: "Portrait" Inscribed, lower center: 59/80

Marks Watermark, lower right: BFK RIVES | France Srystamp, lower right corner: a.g.b. graphics

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the artist, Mary Bero

1997-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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